The 20 Wealthiest People in America
20 Wealthiest in America - 2022:
Net worth in billion U.S.
Elon Musk (Tesla Motors, SpaceX) 219
Jeff Bezos (Amazon) 171
Bill Gates (Microsoft) 129
Warren Buffet (Berkshire Hathaway) 118
Larry Page (Google) 111
Sergey Brin (Google) 107
Larry Ellison (Oracle) 106
Steve Ballmer (Microsoft) 91
Michael Bloomberg (Bloomberg LP) 82
Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) 67
Jim Walton (Walmart) 66
Alice Walton (Walmart) 65
S. Robson "Rob" Walton (Walmart) 65
Julia Koch (Koch Industries) 60
Charles Koch (Koch Industries) 60
Michael Dell (Dell computers) 55
Phil Knight (Nike) 47
MacKenzie Scott (Amazon) 44
Stephen Schwarzman (investments) 35
Len Blavatnik (music, chemicals) 33
By gender
Looking at the 20 Wealthiest Americans, we include 3 women: Alice Walton, part of the Walton (Walmart) family, MacKenzie Scott (Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife), and Julia Koch and family (Koch Industries).
3 out of 20 = 15%
By wealth
The Top 20 Richest Americans hold a combined total wealth of $1731 billion. Of these Top 20 Richest Americans, 17 men hold $1562 billion of Total Wealth, and 3 women hold $169 billion of total wealth[1]. Therefore, even among the wealthiest 20 people in America, women own or control 9.6%
$169 bn (women) out of $1731 bn (total) = 9.2%